MALARIA

New York: There is no need to spray insecticide on walls for malaria control when people sleep under treated bed nets, says a new research.
"Use of insecticide spray on internal walls, when combined with insecticide-treated bed nets in homes, does not protect children from malaria any more effectively than using...

Washington: US philanthropist Bill Gates has announced he will donate over USD 500 million to fight malaria and other infectious diseases in the developing world, saying the Ebola outbreak is a call to action.
The former Microsoft CEO told the 63rd annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine...

Panaji: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "Swachh Bharat" mission could help bring down malaria incidence in the country, according to top experts in the field of vector borne diseases.
"The campaign will definitely help bring down the rate of malaria in India further," Shiv Lal, president of the Indian Society of Malaria...

Chandigarh: Work is on to develop a vaccine to contain prevalence of cervical cancer among women, especially in rural and tribal areas, former President APJ Abdul Kalam said on Tuesday.
"The vaccine will cost around Rs 100," he said at a conference organised here by the Institute of Microbial Technology...

New Delhi: A total of 75 cases of dengue have been reported in the national capital so far this year with an increase of 36 per cent noted over the last one week, as per a report.
A total of 55 cases were reported in Delhi till September 13, the report...

Agartala: At least 76 people have died of malaria in the state during the past one and a half months, the state government on Sunday said.
The deaths occurred mostly in the tribal dominated areas since midJune till date, Health and Family Welfare Minister Badal Chowdhury told reporters here.
"Insurgency has ravaged...

London: GlaxoSmithKline said on Thursday it is applying for regulatory approval for the world's first vaccine against malaria, designed for children in Africa.
The British drugmaker said the shot, called RTS,S, is intended exclusively for use outside the European Union but will be evaluated by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in...

This week's Citizen Journalist Show puts spotlight on issues affecting citizens from across the country. This episode features story of a rape victims fight for compensation to a story highlighting the plight of malaria survivors in Tripura. We also have a story of a young female mountaineers journey to Europe's...

Washington: Malaria may alter the way people smell to make them more alluring to mosquitoes, according to a new finding that can help detect the deadly disease noninvasively through body odour.
An infection with malaria pathogens changes the scent of infected mice, making those infected more attractive to mosquitoes, researchers have...

Agartala: With the reports of two more deaths from malaria, the death toll of the disease rose to 52 since its outbreak about 20 days ago, state Health Minister said on Saturday.
Two deaths were reported from Kanchanpur subdivision in Norh Tripura district yesterday, Badal Choudhury said. "A total of...

Agartala: A malaria epidemic has killed at least 51 people, including 42 children, in Tripura this month while thousands have fallen ill, officials said on Friday.
Nearly 5,500 of some 25,000 who reported malaria like symptoms have tested positive for the disease, a health department spokesman told reporters here.
While officials have...

Thiruvananthapuram: Under attack from opposition parties in the assembly over outbreak of a fever in the state, Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Wednesday said unlike previous years, the disease is under control this time.
"Today (Wednesday) is the 13th day that the assembly is in session and today you say...

Agartala: The deaths in a malaria outbreak in Tripura have risen to 41, including 31 children, a minister said here on Sunday.
Over 22,000 people have fallen ill in the tribaldominated mountainous areas of Dhalai, Gomti, Khowai, North Tripura and South Tripura districts.
"At least 41 people, including 31 children, have died...

New Delhi: The civic agencies here Wednesday launched drives to improve sanitation situation and to prevent spread of malaria and dengue in the city during monsoon.
The East Delhi Municipal Corporation launched the "Malaria and Dengue Prevention Month" to sensitise citizens about these diseases and their prevention and cure before the...

London: Scientists have successfully modified mosquitoes to produce sperm that will only create male offspring, pioneering a fresh approach to eradicating malaria.
Researchers from Imperial College London have tested a new genetic method that distorts the sex ratio of Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes, the main transmitters of the malaria parasite, so that...

British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline will seek marketing approval for the world's first malaria vaccine next year after trial data showed the shot significantly cut cases of the disease in African children.
The vaccine known as RTS,S was found, after 18 months of followup, to have almost halved the number of malaria cases...

News Delhi. There has been a surge in dengue and malaria cases in New Delhi. According to MCD, 466 cases of dengue and 401 cases of Malaria have been reported in the capital till September 14. For dengue, it's a spurt, compared to the cases registered in last couple of...

Over 300 cases of dengue have been detected so far this month, marking an increase of more than 100 per cent over the August figure of 142.
First two weeks of September have registered 304 cases, taking the total of dengue cases so far in the city to 466 in 2013,...

With the heavy spell of rain, Gujarat is in the grip of monsoon illnesses. Ahmadabad has recorded 424 cases of Malaria falciparum the more lethal form of malaria. The Ahmadabad Municipal Corporation has also recorded 6,772 cases of malaria and 313 cases of dengue.
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New Delhi: Dengue is back in Delhi with 98 cases identified ever since the outbreak. The experts have blamed it on the lack of fumigation and sources said that municipal workers were unwilling to work because they had not got their salaries.
The fatal fever is on the rise in the...

Copenhagen: Chloroquine, an efficacious old drug, is once again beginning to work against malaria, one of the most widespread scourges in the world. Scientists and doctors fear that the malaria parasite will develop resistance to the current frontline treatment against malaria: Artemisininbased Combination Therapies (ACTs). Resistance (to drugs) monitoring at...

Sydney: Australian researchers have made a major breakthrough in the quest for a vaccine against malaria, which snuffs out a million lives every year, particularly of children.
The findings show that people who develop immunity to malaria develop antibodies that primarily target a protein known as PfEMP1, which is produced by...

New Delhi: Less than a week after the monsoon hit the national capital, scores of cases of dengue and malaria have already been reported. More than 86 cases of Malaria and five cases of dengue have been reported, which is almost double the number of cases reported in 2011 till...

Mumbai: In a shocking study published in medical journal, The Lancet, scientists have found that onethird of malaria medicines in South East Asia and Africa are either fake or of poor quality. What is even worse is that a majority of these fake medicines are being manufactured in India and...

New Delhi: A new study by UKbased medical journal Lancet has found that seven per cent of antimalarial drugs tested in India are of poor quality and many are fake. The study goes on to say that 1 in every 3 antimalarial drugs sold in southeast Asia are also fake....

Mumbai: By the time you're done watching this report, somewhere in the world a child would have succumbed to malaria. A public health disaster in subSaharan Africa and parts of South East Asia, Malaria poses a threat to a 100 crore Indians, according to the latest World Malaria Report....

London: Malaria kills over 1.2 million people every year worldwide, twice as many deaths as thought earlier, while deaths from the mosquitoborne disease in India could be more than 45 times higher than what is currently estimated, a new study has claimed.
Researchers at the University of Washington's Institute of...

New Delhi: 2011 was a year not just of landmark political revolutions but also of medical marvels. Be it HIV prevention or a vaccine for malaria, 2011 saw many medical breakthroughs. Here's a look at the top five:
HIV treatment as prevention:
It has been deemed as the most important scientific breakthrough...

Mumbai: The world's first malaria vaccine is in its final stages of clinical trials. It's proving to be 56 per cent effective, which means it will reduce the risk of the disease by more than half.
After 30 years of research, this is the best shot for a malaria vaccine....